Fragrance Beauty Chapter 2: When We Meet Again, We Are Strangers

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After saying that, Mrs. Fu closed the gate and locked it.

Before Cold Fragrance recovered from the shock, she was pulled into the carriage by a pair of rough hands. She looked back and saw that Old Chen, who had been serving the Fu family for thirty years, was full of tears.

"Let's go! Miss, the Fu family ... is in trouble! Let's go to Su's house and find Childe Su! " He said in a trembling voice, pulling her to the carriage.

Cold Fragrance repeated blankly: "Go to Su's home..."

Her confused eyes gradually lit up.

Yes, find Su brother, he must have a way out! She thought, "He cares about me so much that we swear an oath of eternal love. He will surely have a way!"

At this time, the front door of the Fu's mansion had already been pounded loudly and the horrifying sound of soldiers' weapons coming out of their sheaths could be heard. Old Chen did not dare to delay any longer. He lashed the horse with his whip and drove off toward the darkness of night.

They didn't know that only after a while, the Fu's mansion was devoured by flames and turned into a h.e.l.l on earth...

A loud bang pulled her out of her memories. At present, there was neither flames nor mom's desperate eyes.

There was a just gloomy prison cell, which was Imperial Prison with no exit. She wanted to cry, but there was no tear in her dry eyes. She knew that all this was not a nightmare but the cruel reality.

She was a n.o.ble lady of the Fu family one moment ago, and then she was crammed into a carriage to escape. But that was not the end of the nightmare. She seemed to be trapped in endless nightmares and could never get rid of them.

After escaping from the Fu's mansion, Old Chen sent her to Su's house as her mother ordered, but before their carriage arrived at the door of Su's house, they saw red color everywhere and crowds of people.

The Su family was holding a marriage?! She was shocked to hear such rumors.

"I heard that the Fu family got into a big case of rebellion, and an imperial messenger came down to deal with the case. This Lin family has always been friends with the Fu family for generations. How can a happy event be held at this situation? And at night, how unlucky…"

"How could a common female corpse case become a big rebellion case?" Some onlookers were surprised.

"Who knows? I heard that the ident.i.ty of the corpse is not that simple…" Someone said vaguely, "I heard it came from the palace ca.n.a.l."

"Ah!" Some people exclaimed, "Isn't Fu county magistrate in terrible situation? Lin family and Fu family's friends.h.i.+p has lasted for two generations. Why don't they help Fu family and have a happy event at this point?"

"Are you stupid? It is because at this point that Su family hold the wedding… they want to disa.s.sociate from Fu family. Su and Fu are supposed to hold the wedding in one month, so they want to get rid of the original marriage contract before imperial envoyscome down to them."

"Miss Fu is so unfortunate…"

"Facing this kind of trouble, not to mention Miss Fu, Su family cannot even protect themselves. Alas..."

Cold Fragrance looked at the crowds blankly, her face turning pale and her mind full of confusion. It was only half a month from the corpse case till now. Everything had been changed. Fu's family was captured under imperial edict, and the whole family could not escape. Now even Su family had turned the back on Fu family ...

"No, it's impossible! My dear Su can't be that kind of person! He must have been forced!" Cold Fragrance thought.

Her heart was seized with pain. She opened the carriage curtain and wanted to get off, but before she could stand firm, there was a noise from the street.

She suddenly looked towards that direction, only to see a groom in red clothes - it was Su Yuan, her fiancé - smiling on a horse.

Bright lights on both sides of the street shone on his fair skin, illuminating his delicate eyebrows and beautiful eyes.

The eyes and his gentle smile were so familiar to her. It was her dear Su Yuan, her last hope.

She wished he could hold her hand and tell her that all this was not true, but just a dream; when she woke up, she would find out that nothing had changed.

Cold Fragrance looked at him blankly, watching him get down from the horse, lift the marriage carriage curtain and then hold the hand of the beautiful bride. His every move was as elegant as a fallen fairy, so pleasing to the eye. He was not like being forced at all.

His gentle voice seemed to be sounded in her ear again and again.

"Fragrance, we must be together for a lifetime."

"Fragrance, I swear to heaven, you are the only one in my heart..."

She trembled with tears. There seemed to be telepathy between them: when she looked at Su Yuan, he suddenly looked in her direction. She was shocked all over. At this time, the servants in the Su family carrying a basket of happy money began to spill it to the crowd, which made the people even more excited.

Before she realized what happened, she was crowded into Su's mansion. Old Chen wanted to hold her, but was crowded towards the opposite direction.

Suddenly, a powerful hand grabbed her.

She looked up and saw Su Yuan's face, and in his eyes were just indifference. His hand grabbed her so tightly that it made her sweat with pain.

"Su, I..." Cold Fragrance just wanted to say something, but she suddenly stopped.

She looked into Su Yuan's eyes, speaking with a slightly hoa.r.s.e voice: "It turns out that you've already known about it? You've known that Fu family is in trouble..."

Her voice seemed not to come from her: "So you are getting married just to break up with our family."

Su Yuan's eyes were cold. He pushed her to the ground and shouted: "What are you talking about? Get out of here!"

"You ..."

"Miss, I don't know who you are!" Su Yuan's voice was cold and heartless. He turned and left without looking at her.

Before Cold Fragrance stood up, people from all directions crowded the bride and the groom together into Su's mansion.

She fell to the cold ground and looked at all the lively crowd in front of her. Her eyes were filled with red color, which was like scarlet sea that flooded her immediately.

She gazed at the tall figure in red and finally fainted.

Torture continued and the cell was filled with unspeakable smell. This was even worse than h.e.l.l. And she had no hope but to linger on with her last breath of life.

Fu family, Su family, dad, mom... The man she loved, Su Yuan...

She bit into her arm to keep herself from making a sound. She was trembling.

There was a faint voice in her ear: "The one who tortures them is eunuch Fu Ying, who is called 'Devil' ofimperial punishment department. Fu family can never escape from his hands, because he is so good at punishment that he can open a dead man's mouth. You can only expect him not to come to you."

Cold Fragrance stared straight at the darkness in front of her. The voice of women continued: "Fortunately, eunuch Fu Ying is only interested in men, not women. When he has tortured all men of Fu family, you may have a chance to survive..."

Cold Fragrance finally moved. She looked back at the woman who had been rambling in her ear. Her eyes were filled with deep despair: "To survive? How can I survive? In another five days I will be beheaded. Hha! All of us are going to die..."

She began to giggle and her voice was like a ghost crying. Cold light flashed in the eyes of the woman around her. The woman covered her mouth.

"Don't listen. Don't look. Don't say a word. Fu Cold Fragrance, you will get out of this place. As long as you listen to me, you will get out of this d.a.m.n place. After escaping, you will change your name, and then remember what I said to you. Revenge! Revenge for your family, revenge for 'me'… Revenge... Revenge..."

"Revenge... Cold Fragrance, revenge! Revenge!"

"Revenge for Fu family! Revenge for me..."

"Revenge ..."

The cursing words spread in the dark cell, mingled with the whipping, crying and pungent scent of blood, forming a strange feeling.

Cold Fragrance in the woman's arms kept trembling and trembling.

Revenge, revenge... put all the pain she suffered today on those people...

Revenge! Wipe out all ghosts and devils from the world!

A bolt of lightning flashed across the dark sky, lighting up the woman's face in front of her.

Cold Fragrance suddenly opened his eyes wide: This woman was... clearly another her!

How could this happen?

The woman smiled at her and looked exactly the same as her.

"No..." Cold Fragrance suddenly understood something, grabbing the hand of the woman - the other her.

"No!" She shouted in a hoa.r.s.e voice. But the next moment there was a sharp pain in her back. She looked at the "Cold Fragrance" in front of her and opened her mouth, but finally sank into endless darkness without saying anything...